[Rdap] Data Curation Specialist job opening at the U of Minnesota

[Lisa Johnston]

Become a part of our data curation team! We are recruiting a Public Health
Sciences Librarian who will also serve on our team of data curators to
support the Data Repository for the U of M (DRUM).


*University of Minnesota Health Sciences Libraries*

Position Available

*Public Health Liaison and Data Curation Specialist*



The University of Minnesota Libraries invites applications for a liaison to
the School of Public Health who will also serve as a research data curation
specialist. We seek applicants who are innovative and flexible, possess
data management skills, and understand public health as a broad discipline
and its impact on population health and disease prevention.



This position is a member of the Health Sciences Libraries (HSL) division
of the University Libraries, which includes include the Bio-Medical Library
(http://hsl.lib.umn.edu/biomed), the Wangensteen Historical Library of
Biology and Medicine, and the Veterinary Medical Library.


We are seeking an outgoing, proactive, engaged professional who can develop
collaborative relationships with faculty, staff, and students of the School
of Public Health (http://www.sph.umn.edu/), and create new tools, programs,
and initiatives that respond to information trends in public health
education, practice and research. In response to the University’s Research
Data Management policy (http://policy.umn.edu/research/researchdata) and
recent federal mandates to make research data publicly accessible, we
envision this position supporting the management and curation of research
data sets.



Responsibilities include analyzing data sets for sensitive data,
recommending best practices for de-identification, and ensuring that
metadata is applied to facilitate discovery and re-use. Responsibilities
include: forging relationships with faculty, staff, and students of the
School, consulting and collaborating on a wide range of topics to identify
their information needs and provide solutions to their information
problems; promoting new modes of scholarly communication and recruiting
institutional scholarly output for inclusion in the University Digital
Conservancy (http://udc.umn.edu) and the Data Repository for the U of M
(DRUM, http://z.umn.edu/drum); and collaborating with the HSL Research
Services Coordinator, the Libraries’ data curation specialists, and other
research/data management service providers across the University (CTSI,
CLA).



An American Library Association accredited Master’s degree in
Library/Information Science or a combination of an advanced degree in a
related discipline (e.g., public health, social work, sociology,
psychology, etc.) and relevant experience is required, as is familiarity
with sensitive research data and an understanding of best practices for
de-identification. Working knowledge of major statistical software (SAS, R,
SPSS, STATA), an understanding of and skill in data visualization
techniques, and demonstrated understanding of scientific research processes
and methods for measuring research impact are preferred.



For complete description and qualifications, and to apply, to go
http://z.umn.edu/ulib350



*The University of Minnesota is an Equal Opportunity Educator and Employer.*

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Lisa Johnston
Research Data Management/Curation Lead
and Co-Director of the University Digital Conservancy

University of Minnesota Libraries
108 Walter Library, Minneapolis, MN 55455
p: 612.624.4216                 F: 612.625.5583
http://lib.umn.edu/datamanagement  |   http://conservancy.umn.edu

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6908-9240
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